That feeling of being in, and owning, your own body is a fundamental human experience. Now, Professor Olaf Blanke, a neurologist with the Brain Mind Institute at EPFL and the Department of ...

Similarly, Blanke found that patients with out-of-body experiences often had strokes or seizures that affected this area of the brain. “The initial surprise was just how easy it is to trick the ...

Now clues about the role that one area of the brain may play in generating such powerful illusions come from a study by Olaf Blanke of the Brain Mind Institute of the Swiss Federal Institute of ...

Under normal circumstances the brain is able to form a unified self-perception, but lead researcher Olaf Blanke explained that when this malfunctions the brain creates a second representation of ...

Activity in one region of the brain could explain out-of-body experiences. Researchers in Switzerland have triggered the phenomenon using electrodes 1. People describe out-of-body experiences as ...

The study is the result of a collaboration between the Hummel Lab and Olaf Blanke's Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience (LCNO), both at EPFL's Neuro X institute.

The part of the brain that can induce out-of-body experiences has been located. 'Out-of-body' experiences (OBEs) are curious, usually brief sensations in which a person's consciousness seems to ...

The Swiss neurosurgeon, Olaf Blanke, and his team were operating on a 43-year-old woman who had been suffering from frequent epileptic fits for 11 years (Blanke et al 2002).

A series of experiments provide conclusive evidence that the brain uses a single mechanism (supramodality) to estimate confidence in different senses such as audition, touch, or vision.